While in China, Marco Polo labeled Japan the island of Chipangu in a book, rather than Nihon or Nippon, which is what the Japanese call themselves. It seems Chipangu was an early Mandarin word for Japan, and in modern Shanghainese the word for Japan is still Zeppen.
But most of the world, and indeed most of China, calls the country a version of “Nipon.” The Western World is the odd one out, still calling the island “Japan!”
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